FEAR -- Prodded by seeing Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights and by my father's "tasty little nugget" comment about Reese Witherspoon, I rented a movie starring both of them. It starts out promisingly, as a sort of surreal teen flick -- too-good-to-be-true Marky courts daddy's-little-girl Reese -- but then it comes over all psycho all of a sudden, and then it's just over-the-top, unbelievably stupid. And all I have to say to my father is, Reese Witherspoon looks like she's about 12. I'll take my tasty little nugget in the form of Mark Wahlberg, who at least looks like he's on the legal side of puberty.
Oh yeah, and Alyssa Milano's in it, and she keeps having flashbacks to Poison Ivy 2. I got one thing to say to you, Alyssa: They're called clothes. Think about wearing some sometime, darlin'.
STRANGER THAN PARADISE -- Quirky road movie by the king of quirky, Jim Jarmusch. Not for everyone (certainly not for everyone on this list), but fun if you get into the mood. Though it's surprisingly static, camerawise, for a road movie.
ARMY OF DARKNESS -- I know my brother recommended this years ago -- it's a lot of fun. Sort of an ancestor to those cheesy Hercules series. A modern-day hardware salesman gets sent back to medieval times and has to battle big-time evil with nifty special effects and snappy quips like "You ain't leader of but two things right now, Jack and shit, and Jack just left town." Very, very gory, though -- be warned.
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